Posted on 04/15/2013 8:17:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez is holding up a vote in the U.S. Senate on a resolution honoring Margaret Thatcher, the former prime minister of the United Kingdom who died last week after suffering a stroke, multiple sources tell The Daily Caller.
While the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring Thatcher last week, Menendez, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, objects to some of the language proposed by Republicans in the Senate’s version, sources said.
A copy of the proposed resolution, which would be offered by Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, honors “the life, legacy, and example of British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher.”
Another source said Democrats want to “black out everything but a few lines acknowledging her service as prime minister.”
Reacting to the news, conservatives slammed Menendez.
“I don’t know if he’s blocking the Thatcher resolution because he likes Socialism or because he holds women in such low regard, but Senator Menendez should drop his objections immediately,” Matt Hoskins, the executive director of the Senate Conservatives Fund....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
You have no idea, as to IA operations, that reopened under Lady Thatcher. What’s your deal, yobbie.
Honor is an attribute that will never be attached to a low-life hack such as he.
I will be sending a note to “My” Senator shortly...
What’s up with his War on Women? First he won’t pay his underage prostitutes, now he won’t honor a powerful woman....
Why do democrats hate non lesbian women?
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